TD: Re: [CS-FSLUG] God Didn't Say That (who we really are)

[David M.]

On Tuesday 11 January 2005 09:05 pm, Leon Brooks wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 January 2005 11:01, David M. wrote:
> > On Monday 10 January 2005 07:50 pm, Leon Brooks wrote:
> >> On Tuesday 11 January 2005 02:49, David M. wrote:
> >>> Can you become a homosexual?
> >>
> >> Yes. I've watched it happen (almost literally in one case) to two
> >> people. One suicided a few years later, and I lost track of the
> >> other.
> >
> > Are you sure you wasn't witnessing someone realizing who they
> > really are?
>
> Absolutely. Both men became very unhappy about their choice, despite (in
> one case) the typical euphoria of a new convert to *anything* and while
> I didn't get to read the note myself, but was told that the suicide had
> come to the conclusion that it had been a quote, bloody stupid,
> unquote, thing to do.
>
> As to "who we really are": we really are fallen and sinful, aren't we?
>
> Discovering "who we really are" is of absolutely no help to us unless we
> go on to beg forgiveness for it and then accept God's solutions for it.
> "Who we really are" is not something to glory in, it's something to be
> disposed of ASAP. God specifically says in several places that people
> denying "who they really are" are worse off than if they didn't know.

Absolutely cool! I have absolutely gained a vast wealth of knowledge in this 
thread.

I really am flabbergasted.
-- 
David M.